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I just saw this on "BBC World News America":
"With the TGV, she would have suffered less":
https://tinyurl.com/ydxteptd ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Odious' French train ad deemed legal
21 November 2018
A French court has ruled that posters showing a woman tied to train tracks
did not promote violence against women.
The posters were put up around the town of B�ziers last December to
celebrate the arrival of high-speed TGV trains. They carried the caption:
"With the TGV, she would have suffered less."
The ads faced a legal challenge from a number of feminist groups and
criticism by France's equality minister.
But the court said they were legal, despite the questionable humour.
The posters were launched four months 34-year-old Emilie Hallouin died after she was tied to TGV tracks by her husband and hit by a train in a murder-suicide in northern France.
Many Twitter users, including French Senator Laurence Rossignol, drew
parallels between the posters and the tragic news story.
https://twitter.com/laurossignol/status/940157289427886080
A Socialist MP called the ads "odious".
But the far-right mayor of B�ziers, Robert M�nard, defended his campaign, accusing critics of "political correctness" and pointing to a history of
such images in old films and cartoons.
https://twitter.com/RobertMenardFR/status/940612864217374721
The court in the southern city of Montpellier said the posters had been designed to provoke a reaction, and did not encourage violence against any specific group, including women.
After the French court threw out the complaint, Mr M�nard tweeted that the
case had been "an inquisition in petticoats".
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